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Accents

Our Romance languages love to decorate their letters

Mar 15, 2026
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French, Spanish, and Italian have at least two accents apiece, but the types and purposes vary in each language.

Though accents are essential to all three of our Romance languages, they don’t have much in common.

🇫🇷 French

Les accents

French has 5 different kinds of accents:

  1. acute é

  2. cedilla ç

  3. circumflex â

  4. dieresis ï

  5. grave ù

as well as a special character: ligat…

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